Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
ISLAMABAD: Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB) has decided to approach provincial governments for provision of wasteland for bio-diesel plantation. According to AEDB on Wednesday, the board of directors has decided to facilitate provision of land to private firms interested in bio-diesel projects. Several private sector organisations have shown interest in …
In the last week of August, eight cars rolled triumphantly into Athens, having driven across Europe from London in a cloud of dust and cooking smells. The 3,000-km car rally ran on oil, recycled from used cooking oil collected from restaurants, service stations, hospitals, even
This paper is an analysis of challenges faced by the transport sector and discusses the key issues of sustainability, resource optimization, and climate change. Affordability, transportation equity, and environmental sustainability are some of the key issues discussed in the paper. As the personal incomes in the People
High levels of oil imports and high crude oil and gasoline prices in recent years have led to increased interest in the U.S. fuel supply. Recent congressional interest has focused on alternatives to petroleum, ways to improve the efficiency of the U.S. transportation sector, and ways to improve the stability …
A passenger jet powered in part by vegetable oil successfully completed a two-hour flight Tuesday to test a biofuel that could lower aircraft emissions and cut costs, Air New Zealand said. One engine of a Boeing 747-400 was powered by a 50-50 blend of oil from jatropha plants and standard …
Ajay Modi / New Delhi December 04, 2008, 0:25 IST Biodiesel producers, who were until recently completely dependent on the export market, are now able to sell a part of their produce to DG (Diesel generator) set users and large bus/truck fleet owners. These DG sets are being run completely …
The State Government is chalking out a plan to tap surface water sources in a big way, to ensure that nearly 40 per cent of the State's population can get clean drinking water supply. Speaking to reporters here on Wednesday, State Planning Commission Vice-Chairman D H Shankarmurthy said that an …
This is a best practices State Resource Guide that discusses the alternative fuels and vehicles available today and the advanced technologies that will be available in the future. This guide reviews the alternative fuels and technologies currently available, examines ways for the government to promote greener transportation, and provides an …
Tata Chemicals, leading manufacturer of caustic soda and fertilisers in the country, said today that it had bought a 35 per cent stake in JOil Pte, a Singapore-based jatropha seedling company. The stake buy will help the firm gain exclusive marketing rights for technology to develop the best seed varieties …
Biomass is of recent origin and ranges from algae, shrubs to trees. Dedicated biomass crops are fast growing trees/shrubs and grown in degraded land with lowered inputs. Biofuels are going to stay, despite hype in nuclear energy, as they are renewable, reduce carbon emissions and provide rural employment. They help …
Banking sector should join hands with the government provide sufficient financial backing for availability of Alternative Energy (AE) to ensure cheaper energy resources to the small and medium size business enterprises so as to overcome energy shortage in the country.' This was the crux of the panel discussion on Best …
The proposed medium-term national renewable energy policy for Pakistan will pave the way for the development of renewable projects under a transparent process for reducing transaction costs, delays, and frustrations by potential investors. The two-day national consultative workshop held here on Tuesday discussed threadbare the proposed medium-term national renewable energy …
Alternative fuels employed in road transport: Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), Methanol and Blended/ Ethanol and Electricity. The main objective to introduce CNG as transport fuel in Pakistan was, natural gas being an indigenous energy resource: lessens the import bills; availability, secure energy supplies; robust infrastructure; energy …
Melbourne: Researchers in Australia have built a hydrogen-powered racing car using a modified internal combustion motorcycle engine, that they claim demonstrates the possibilities of the gas as a renewable fuel of the future. A team at RMIT University in collaboration with the Fachhochschule Ingolstadt in Germany has designed the car …
It is not often that an issue approved by the Cabinet, after having been vetted by a group of ministers (GoM), is sent back to the GoM for review. But such has been the fate, for understandable reasons, of the national policy on bio-fuels which was formally okayed by the …
A reddish microbes found in the rainforests of Patagonia could unlock the biofuel of the future, say scientists. Its potential Is so starting that the discoverers have coined the term
By Clifford Krauss For all the support that the presidential candidates are expressing for renewable energy, alternative energies like wind and solar are facing big new challenges because of the credit freeze and the plunge in oil and natural gas prices. Heliostats redirect sunrays to a tower in Seville, Spain. …
